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Hi, I'm Anouche.

I'm Allison, and I'm Steven.

And on an emergency episode of the New Statement podcast, we discuss Boris Johnson's position as a Tory MP defects to Labour and an ex minister told him to go.

So we're recording an emergency episode of the New Statement podcast because it's such a dramatic day in politics already.

And it's only six minutes past two PM Qs was the big dramatic event of the day after the mood began turning from about yesterday afternoonish among conservative MPs.

There was lots of talk about plot among some of the 2019 intake of conservative MPs, particularly those representing Red Wall seats against the Prime Minister.

Just minutes before PM Qs, Christian Wakeford, who represents Barry South, a Red Wall seat, defected to the Labour Party and sat behind Keir Starmer in the Commons for PM Qs.

Can I start by warmly welcoming the Honourable Member for Barry South to the Parliamentary Labour Party.

Mr Speaker likes so many people up and down the country.

He has concluded that the Prime Minister and the Conservative Party have shown themselves incapable of offering the leadership and government this country deserves.

Whereas the Labour Party stands ready to provide an alternative government that the country can be proud of.

Mr Speaker, the Labour Party has changed and so has the Conservative Party.

And if that wasn't set shattering enough, you then had David Davis, former Brexit Secretary, veteran sort of Tory big beast standing up to ask Boris Johnson a question.

Not many on these benches, I have spent weeks and months defending the Prime Minister against often angry constituents.

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